# αὐλός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *aulós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlós, nominalization of *h₂ewlo- (“tube, hollow, channel”).
Cognates include Lithuanian aulas, avilỹs, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Old Armenian օղ (ōł), and perhaps also Latin alvus, Old Church Slavonic улица (ulica, “small lane, narrow street”), and Old Armenian ուղի (ułi, “road, way, passage”). Semantically compare Sanskrit वेणु (veṇu, “reed, tube; flute, pipe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /au̯.lós/ → /aˈβlos/ → /aˈvlos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /au̯.lós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /awˈlos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /aˈβlos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /aˈvlos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /aˈvlos/

### Noun

αὐλός • (aulós) m (genitive αὐλοῦ); second declension
* (music) any pipe-shaped instrument: flute, clarinet, pipe
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.495:κοῦροι δ’ ὀρχηστῆρες ἐδίνεον, ἐν δ’ ἄρα τοῖσιν αὐλοὶ φόρμιγγές τε βοὴν ἔχονkoûroi d’ orkhēstêres edíneon, en d’ ára toîsin auloì phórmingés te boḕn ékhonAnd young men were whirling in the dance, and in their midst flutes and lyres sounded continually.
* hollow tube, pipe, groove, shaft
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.227:περόνη τέτυκτο αὐλοῖσιν διδύμοισιperónē tétukto auloîsin didúmoisiThe buckle was furnished with two grooves [into which the tongue fitted]
* blowhole, duct
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 589b.19
** 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 697a.17
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 524a.10
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 507a.10
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Respiration 478b.8
* stadium
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Alexandra 40
* haulm (of grain)
* cowbane (Cicuta virosa)
** 200 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 10.3
* razor shell
** 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.90d

#### Derived terms

* ἄναυλος (ánaulos)
* ἀσκαύλης (askaúlēs)
* αὐλέω (auléō)
* αὐλίδιον (aulídion)
* αὐλίσκος (aulískos)
* αὐλοβόας (aulobóas)
* αὐλοδόκη (aulodókē)
* αὐλοθετέω (aulothetéō)
* αὐλοθήκη (aulothḗkē)
* αὐλομανέω (aulomanéō)
* αὐλομανής (aulomanḗs)
* αὐλομελῳδία (aulomelōidía)
* αὐλοποιΐα (aulopoiḯa)
* αὐλοποιϊκή (aulopoiïkḗ)
* αὐλοποιός (aulopoiós)
* αὐλοστατέω (aulostatéō)
* αὐλοτρύπης (aulotrúpēs)
* αὐλῳδός (aulōidós)
* αὐλών (aulṓn)
* αὐλῶπις (aulôpis)
* αὐλωτός (aulōtós)
* αὐταύλης (autaúlēs)
* βομβαύλιος (bombaúlios)
* δίαυλος (díaulos)
* δολίχαυλος (dolíkhaulos)
* ἔναυλος (énaulos)
* ἱεραύλης (hieraúlēs)
* κακόαυλος (kakóaulos)
* καλαμαύλης (kalamaúlēs)
* κεραύλης (keraúlēs)
* μεσαύλιον (mesaúlion)
* μίμαυλος (mímaulos)
* μόναυλος (mónaulos)
* ὅμαυλος (hómaulos)
* πάραυλος (páraulos)
* πλαγίαυλος (plagíaulos)
* πρωταύλης (prōtaúlēs)
* Πυθαύλης (Puthaúlēs)
* ῥαπαύλης (rhapaúlēs)
* σπονδαύλης (spondaúlēs)
* σύναυλος (súnaulos)
* τριηραύλης (triēraúlēs)
* τυμβαύλης (tumbaúlēs)
* ὕδραυλις (húdraulis)
* φιλαυλος (philaulos)
* φρυγιαύλιον (phrugiaúlion)
* χοραύλης (khoraúlēs)

#### Descendants

* Greek: αυλός (avlós)

#### See also

* γίγγρος (gíngros)
* μάρδος (márdos)
* συβήνη (subḗnē)
* σωλήν (sōlḗn)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αὐλός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

### Further reading

* “αὐλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “αὐλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “αὐλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* αὐλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* αὐλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* αὐλός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* “αὐλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G836 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. flute idem, page 330.groove idem, page 374.pipe idem, page 614.reed idem, page 684.spout idem, page 805.tap idem, page 855.tube idem, page 900.wind instrument idem, page 980.